Kyle Young will not be on the court for the Buckeyes in their return to action Sunday.
The fifth-year senior forward was one of three Ohio State players listed as unavailable a couple hours before tip-off in Lincoln, Nebraska, Sunday, as the Buckeyes play their first game since Dec. 11 due to a COVID-19 outbreak in the program. The program subsequently announced that Young has a "non-COVID related illness."
The other two unavailable Buckeyes are Justice Sueing and Seth Towns, who are each still out indefinitely as they recover from injuries.
Young, Ohio State's third-leading scorer and second-leading rebounder this season with averages of 10 points and 6.7 boards per game off the bench, missed the first game of the year for the Buckeyes due to a vestibular dysfunction. Since then, Young has appeared in every game for Ohio State.
Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann said Friday that he expected to have “a majority of our roster that will be healthy enough and ready to play" against the Huskers after the COVID-19 layoff.
“Really it’s kind of the great unknown how this is gonna affect us,” Holtmann said. “I do think there’s a conditioning element that you lose when you don’t have the chance to play games and you don’t have the time and the conditioning that comes with playing games. I think that’s natural. There will be some of that."
